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Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996: [United States]United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice StatisticsInter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR2006-03-306858doi://10.3886/ICPSR06858.v1

This collection provides nationally representative data on
persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving
sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data
cover demographic characteristics of jail inmates (sex, race,
ethnicity, Hispanic origin, employment), current offenses and
sentences, detention status, trial, bail, characteristics of victims,
criminal histories, incident characteristics, socioeconomic
circumstances, jail conditions and activities, and prior drug and
alcohol use and treatment. Part 1, Numeric Data, contains numeric data
for all questions in the survey, while Part 2, Alphanumeric Data,
consists of nonnumeric answers to the "Other, Specify" selection
available for some of the questions.

UniverseScheme06858Survey of Inmates in Local Jails SeriesFor more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00069.Organization06858_1ICPSR.XVII.ENAHDAP.IRCMD.IRCMD.VNACJD.IIIcorrectional facilitiescriminal historiesdemographic characteristicsdrug useinmate programsinmatesjail inmatesjailsoffensessentencing
United States
19961996survey dataMale and female inmates held in institutions listed in the
1993 Census of Jails plus jails opened after the census but before the
spring of 1996.The sample design was a stratified two-stage selection. In
the first stage, six strata were formed on the basis of the size of
the male and female inmate populations in each jail. In strata 1 and
2, all jails were selected -- those jails housing only females and
those with more than 1,000 males or more than 50 females or both. In
the remaining 4 strata, a systematic sample of jails was selected:
1 in every 2 jails was selected from stratum 3, 1 in 4 was from
stratum 4, 1 in 25 from stratum 5, and 1 in 51 from stratum 6. Each
jail within a stratum had an equal probability of selection.

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure.
ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software
formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR
performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

ICPSR

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no
responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social RearchICPSRAnn ArborMIhttp://www.icpsr.umich.edu/help@icpsr.umich.eduUnited States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics2006-03-30ICPSR2006-03-30 File CB6858.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.2005-11-04ICPSR2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.1999-08-18ICPSR1999-08-18 Minor editing changes have been made to the
codebook.